Pay workers, not think tanks

Frequently, it is no longer sufficient to espouse conservative political opinions via letter to the editor as a solitary citizen following a committed conscience.

Instead, two lines of credentials must follow the author's name; the first to lend an air of academic rigor and the second to remind the readers just how well funded this conservative opinion is.

I don't pretend to know exactly from whom the Commonwealth Foundation receives its funding, but having a website tab titled "contribute stock" does provide me with some ideas.

If corporate Pennsylvania truly believes that its money is better spent utilizing the Commonwealth Foundation as its in-house public relations department rather than paying its water-treading workers a living wage, then let us all — Legislature included — subject its annual cries of tax oppression to the much greater scrutiny it undoubtedly deserves.